Consciousness

New Philosophical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-924129-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 822 g

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for several decades, but, despite substantial progress, the most difficult problems have still not reached any generally agreed solution.
Future research can start with this book. Eighteen original, specially written essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, knowledge of mental states, consciousness and the brain, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Quentin

Jokic, Aleksandar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Bewusstseinszustände Wachbewusstsein, Unbewusstheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Intentionality and Phenomenal Content

- 2: Tim Crane: The Intentional Structure of Consciousness

- 3: Joseph Levine: Experience and Representation

- 4: Brian Loar: Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia

- 5: Brian P. McLaughlin: Color, Consciousness, and Color Consciousness

- Knowing Mental States

- 7: Kristin Andrews: Knowing Mental States: The Asymmetry of Psychological Prediction and Explanation

- 8: David Chalmers: The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief

- 9: Ernest Sosa: Privileged Access

- Consciousness and the Brain

- 11: Robert Van Gulick: Maps, Gaps, and Traps

- 12: David Papineau: Theories of Consciousness

- 13: William Lycan: Perspectival Representation and the Knowledge Argument

- 14: Anthony Brueckner and E. Beroukhim: McGinn on Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem

- Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

- 16: Michael Lockwood: Consciousness and the Quantum World: Putting Qualia on the Map

- 17: Don Page: Mindless Sensationalism: A Quantum Framework for Consciousness

- 18: Barry Loewer: Consciousness and Quantum Theory: Strange Bedfellows